Fordele: Unless you want to kill someone and have no one care, there is absolutely no positive from staying here.
Ulemper: I was ecstatic, I was finally there. The All Star Lodge, our home away from home for three days while we get to go to a giant music festival. We had planned this out for months and it was finally happening!
I walk to the front door, get buzzed into the lobby and promptly inform the gentleman behind the counter who I was, and what my reservations were. He starts looking around in his computer, "finds them", and tells me it will be 176.00 for the stay. I know there must be some kind of mistake as it was a reservation for 3 rooms, two for three nights, one for two nights. After informing him of this he asks for a confirmation number, I show him my reservations from kayak. He immediately blames the booking agency claiming they are not at fault.
After going a few rounds with this guy about my reservations, I cited that I had called twice to confirm them. He called me a liar and demanded the name of the person I spoke with. unfortunately I was never given the persons name.
After all this is said and done they do have some random rooms we can get periodically to get us through the weekend. However, they had upped the price to 80 dollars a night instead of the 49.95 advertised all over their building, and what we had reserved the rooms for. As we finish up paying and what not the guy informs me that I should not go outside at night, and during the day I should try to stay in a group. Oh joy!
The rooms had stains on the carpet, no fridge, a tv from 1994, some form of hellish bramble thorns stuck in all of the carpet, two towels that you had to return to the front desk to get clean ones, an advertised pool that had no water in it, and their "room service" was the phone number to dominos.
We decide to brave it to go get some food and necessities. There is a giant abandoned mall about two blocks from our room that we cut through to get to the only store in town. Come to find out this is called "the murder mall", more people have been killed in that mall in the past year than they have cops on the force.
Later that night I go outside to smoke, there is a line of people that are obviously going to the same concert as me, all saying the exact same thing "but we had reservations, here is out confirmation number" to no avail.
It appears this place canceled all reservations, and increased the rate once they found out there was a music festival in town.
After checking out and getting away from this hellish abyss where happiness goes to die, we get to the airport, and begin our trek back home. Once I get off the plane I find a voicemail from visa stating fraud protection had locked my account. These guys after everything was said and done had tried to charge me 250 dollars for "smoking" in my room. They had found a dead e-cig in our trash (which was put into a mcdonalds bag) and that was their evidence. Luckily visa has reversed this charge and not honored it.
tl;dr, DON'T STAY HERE, OR IN THIS TOWN. EVER. RUN. NOW.
